Pedagogy of the digitally oppressed
Mong Palatino,
Bulatlat,
Aug 06, 2020
The main argument here is that "the future of online education must be reshaped through a comprehensive critique of the political economy of the internet." As Mong Palatino writes, "unmask the web of monopolies, the networks of surveillance, the economy of inequality that has condemned millions to be invisible and disconnected from the world." Fair enough, but let's apply the same critique to traditional education. After all, that's what we've had up to this point, and we have to has, how well has it been working for the poor and invisible thus far? Yes, there's a danger of education "being reduced into a mastery of prepackaged learning materials." But we can address this with a robust realization of online learning. Can we say the same of the millions of substandard in-person schools around the world, or of the learning opportunities simply being denied to those who cannot afford them?
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